Quotes About Wolfe Tone

#1. Was it for this the wild geese spread The gray wing upon every tide; For this that all that blood was shed, For this. Edward Fitzgerald died, And Robert Emmet and Wolfe Tone, All that delirium of the brave? Romantic Ireland's dead and gone, It's with O'Leary in the grave.

William Butler Yeats

#2. They could read him, they could study him, they could pick him apart, but they couldn't laugh or be sad with him ...

Roberto Bolano

#3. Our freedom must be had at all hazards. If the men of property will not help us they must fall; we will free ourselves by the aid of that large and respectable class of the community - the men of no property.

Wolfe Tone

#4. People aren't trees, so it is false when they speak of roots.

Tom Robbins

#5. Cubism ('multi-locationalism') is one of the painterly forms of acoustic space.

Marshall McLuhan

#6. And her dumplings were so light they would float in the air and you'd have to catch 'em to eat 'em.

Fannie Flagg

#7. I don't believe that military intervention is always the right approach. What we need is a comprehensive strategy, one that advances democratization, economic reforms and equal rights for women.

Zalmay Khalilzad

#8. Many suffer so that some day all Irish people may know justice and peace..

Wolfe Tone

#9. The family is a vast project, so enormous and important, both for us personally and for the world at large, that it's worth putting up with all the incomprehensible cares of life, all that superfluous pain, for its sake.

Sandor Marai

#10. Dear Jane, Just so you know: e. e. cummings cheated on both of his wives. With prostitutes. Yours, Will Grayson

John Green

#11. Empty pockets make empty heads.

William Carlos Williams

#12. Perhaps people ought to feel with more imagination.

Elliot Perlman

#13. The desert takes our dreams away from us, and they don't always return ... Those who don't return become a part of the clouds, a part of the animals that hide in the ravines and of the water that comes from the earth. They become part of everything ... They become the Soul of the World.

Paul Coelho

#14. I find, then, I am but a bad anatomist.

Wolfe Tone

#15. Then he put that one down behind a framed sepia-tone picture of a baseball player named Cecil Travis and picked up another one and tilted it back to his lips.

Tom Wolfe

#16. Societies are not sustainable without institutions.

Mo Ibrahim

#17. All wars, whether just or unjust, disastrous or victorious, are waged against the child.

Eglantyne Jebb

#18. Freedom is to be free of attachments, and the main attachment is to the 'I'-self.

Mooji

#19. When you choose to act on your problems, you cease to be a victim of circumstance and become a force of change; that's when you transition to not only being a survivor, but to being a leader or hero too, and an inspiration to those still in the victim's mindset.

Innocent Mwatsikesimbe